Title: Research the effect of mankind's use of technology on the environment.
Course: Sustainability and Renewable Technologies (21053) > Section: Examining Technology's Effect on the Environment and Natural Resources

Research should include the

- harmful effects of conventional practices in manufacturing, agriculture, construction, energy production, land-use patterns, and transportation
- the reasons these practices are perpetuated
- alternatives that lessen the effect on the environment.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is sprawl, and how does it affect the environment? What methods of development are preferable to sprawl?
- What is the difference between value and price?
- Why is it in the best interest of conventional businesses, industries, and organizations to consider value vs. price when operating?
- What major corporations are changing environmentally damaging patterns to practices that respect the land, resources, and peoples with whom they do business? In what ways and for what reasons are they doing so?